-- Leading companies commit resources, validating LSI Logic's leadership in Platform ASIC market (http://www.rapidchip.com/ )
The 13 initial companies participating in the first partner program in the Platform ASIC space will provide best-in-class, ready-to-use and verified products and services. Through LSI Logic and the RapidChip Platform ASIC partners, customers will be able to choose the optimal combination of IP, design services, tools and platform resources to quickly get to market while minimizing both design risk and cost. RapidChip Platform ASIC includes semiconductor platforms that are optimized for market specific applications such as communications, storage and computing as well as platforms that can be used across other high performance designs such as military, aerospace, industrial and medical applications.
Companies currently participating in the RapidChip Partner Program include ARM Limited, Arrow, Denali Software Inc., GDA Technologies Inc., Memec, PLDApplications, Pinpoint Solutions Inc., Synplicity Inc., Silicon Infusion, TeraSystems Inc., Daito Electron Co., Ltd., Innotech Corporation and Reptechnic Design.
"The participation of these 13 IP, design services and EDA companies in the Partner Program underscores the pervasiveness of the RapidChip Platform ASIC product that reduces engineering costs, mitigates design risk and speeds time to revenue," said Ronnie Vasishta, vice president, Technology Marketing, LSI Logic. "By proliferating our Platform ASIC products and partner services into the marketplace, designers have more choices for high performance customized solutions in a wide variety of applications. We are already seeing a dramatic turnaround in ASIC design starts and are very pleased that our partners are joining us in heralding in the era of Platform ASICs."
Intellectual Property Partners
Through the RapidChip Platform ASIC Partner Program, third-party suppliers supplement LSI Logic's world-class CoreWare(R) portfolio with IP that meets specific LSI Logic standards for design integrity, ease of use, reusability, supportability and quality for use in RapidChip designs. This innovative program significantly increases the number of IP offerings for RapidChip designs, providing a fast and affordable innovation path for designers in a broad range of applications and market segments. The larger selection of cores and shorter design cycles add convenience to RapidChip Platform ASIC customers, enhancing their ability to choose the right cores for their specific applications quickly and efficiently.
Design Services Partners
Delivering on the promise of shorter-design cycles, trained and qualified third-party design services partners work closely with RapidChip Platform ASIC customers to provide expert and qualified engineering resources across the globe. These partners are selected on the basis of their significant engineering expertise and experience, providing customers with a larger pool of resources to complete their designs faster and more efficiently. These design service partners augment LSI Logic design services and its Mint Design Services capabilities.
EDA Tools Partners
EDA tool partners provide key tools for LSI Logic's RapidChip design methodology. Through the RapidChip Platform ASIC Partner Program, EDA partners work with LSI Logic to create and customize tools into an optimized solution for RapidChip designs. The tools provided by EDA partners enable RapidChip customers to realize unequaled designer productivity and complete complex RapidChip designs on schedule.
About RapidChip
The RapidChip semiconductor platform combines the high-density, high-performance benefits of cell-based ASICs with the fast time-to-market and customization benefits of FPGAs, and the proven IP benefits of ASSPs. Targeting the communications, consumer, storage and other markets, RapidChip Platform ASICs use LSI Logic's high-performance field-tested CoreWare(R) IP, customizable logic, embedded memory, and innovative design concepts to significantly reduce design and manufacturing risk and costs. RapidChip Platform ASICs also provide a fast and seamless migration path to full standard-cell ASIC -- driving unit costs even lower.
Unique to RapidChip Platform ASICs is the customer-friendly interface that dramatically simplifies the underlying complexity of the design tools and flows associated with SoC design. Rule sets automatically manage architectural design, verification, and physical design. As a result, design schedules for high-performance chips are very predictable. Information on RapidChip technology is available through LSI Logic's direct sales channels and worldwide distribution partners.
About LSI Logic Corporation
LSI Logic Corporation focuses on the design and production of high-performance semiconductors for Consumer, Communications and Storage applications that access, interconnect and store data, voice and video. LSI Logic engineers incorporate reusable, industry-standard intellectual property building blocks that serve as the heart of leading-edge systems. LSI Logic serves its global OEM, channel and distribution customers with Platform ASICs, standard-cell ASICs, standard products, host bus adapters, RAID controllers and software. In addition, the company supplies storage network solutions for the enterprise. LSI Logic is headquartered at 1621 Barber Lane, Milpitas, CA 95035. http://www.lsilogic.com/ .
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RapidChip Partners
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ARM LIMITED
"The RapidChip Partners Program provides an additional significant avenue for ARM to strengthen its partnership with LSI Logic. We are excited by the prospect of enabling our IP portfolio for use in LSI Logic's industry-leading RapidChip Platform ASIC" said John Cornish, director of product marketing, ARM. "LSI Logic's RapidChip Platform ASIC is becoming a significant force in the market for addressing the need for shortening time to revenue and reducing risk on ASIC development."
DENALI SOFTWARE INC.
"With the increasing adoption of Platform ASIC solutions in the market, partnering with LSI Logic on the RapidChip Partners Program to enable Denali's industry leading Databahn DDR1 and DDR2 memory controller cores provides a new avenue for us to expand our customer base," said Mark Gogolewski, CTO, Denali. "We are pleased to be part of the RapidChip Partner Program and look forward to continuing to work with LSI Logic in bringing the benefits of our partnership to the marketplace."
GDA TECHNOLOGIES INC.
"We are pleased to be part of LSI Logic's RapidChip Partner Program launch, and are working to offer our comprehensive line of IP solutions such as PCI Express, Advanced Switching, HyperTransport, RapidIO, SPI-4 and Ethernet controllers on LSI Logic's revolutionary RapidChip platform," said Prakash Bare, vice president of IP Business Unit at GDA Technologies. "This partnership will empower customers to use high quality IP solutions to architect and realize complex ASICs with much reduced risk, cost, and time-to-market."
PLDApplications
Arnaud Schleich, vice president, Sales and Marketing for PLDApplications commented: "Our PCI, PCI-X and PCI-Express technologies are widely established with FPGA developers, so it's natural to extend our IP offerings to LSI Logic's RapidChip Platform ASICs." He added, "PLDA is also pleased to report right-first-time customer silicon for our PCI core implemented on LSI Logic's RapidChip. With PLDA's participation in LSI Logic's RapidChip Partners program, we look forward to additional success with our leading edge PCI- Express and PCI-X cores on RapidChip Platform ASICs."
Tools SYNPLICITY INC.
"Synplicity is delighted to be a part of LSI Logic's RapidChip(R) Partner Program," said Joe Gianelli, vice president of Business Development and Strategic Alliances, Synplicity, Inc. "We have worked closely to develop a custom software tool, Amplify(R) RapidChip, which consistently delivers world-class results and rapid design closure for LSI Logic's Platform ASIC devices. The partnership is evidence of our mutual vision to provide feature rich ASIC products with quick time to market, reduced silicon cost and reduced risk."
TERASYSTEMS C.
According to Alain Labat, TeraSystems' president and CEO, "Platform/Structured ASIC has emerged as an attractive new alternative for many ASIC and FPGA designers, with RapidChip playing a leading role. We are very pleased to have partnered with LSI logic for the past 18 months to integrate our patented TeraGate(TM) technology in the unique LSI Logic RapidChip design flow. TeraForm-RapidChip, the customized product we created for structured ASIC customers, can help them achieve fast time-to-market at an affordable cost, with a user-friendly, efficient design process."
